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Meanings of inanity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "vacuity"
Examples for "vacuity"
1
The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
2
They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
3
A look of dull disappointment struggled with the vacuity of his face.
4
The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
5
Pure Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity.
1
To say nothing of the inhumanity, the senselessness of duelling revolts me.
2
The senselessness of it was growing on him with his increased confidence.
3
The groom ran away, and she put that down to native senselessness.
4
A moment later, the coals of the hearth crackled into senselessness.
5
It disgusted him-yetby its perverse senselessness it angered him too.
1
And that's where the pointlessness of this accessory starts to become clear.
2
What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness.
3
The Absurdity he identified is the ultimate pointlessness of life in general.
4
This series finale is right up there with Seinfeld's for pointlessness.
5
On the third attempt I am overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the exercise.
1
Instead it ridicules the petty mindlessness of bureaucracy and office politics everywhere.
2
I opted for Chinese, then sat back and enjoyed a state of blissful mindlessness.
3
Even Eden understood the necessity of mindlessness on some occasions.
4
To them, death is violence and miscalculation, mindlessness and cruelty.
5
For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.
Usage of inanity in English
1
Thirty years on I can now recognise the inanity of my question.
2
The inanity of the question enraged even the pleasure-seekers at the back.
3
The ludicrous sublimity of such an ethical snarl reduced him to inanity.
4
It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.
5
In fact, his physiognomy indicated the inanity of character which pervaded his life.
6
His cheek resumed its wonted paleness; but he did not relapse into inanity.
7
This holiday season, treat yourself to 13 hours of goofy inanity.
8
The lowest copyboy knows better than to utter such an inanity.
9
Sloth, inanity, and bloated pride are here too often the characteristics of office.
10
And his gallant answer was interrupted by some inanity from Herr von Mark.
11
But that is an inanity, Miss Bell, and unworthy of me.
12
The Roman was standing, smiling, waiting for me to utter some bland inanity.
13
The latter give us inanity without clothes; the former, inanity in particularly gorgeous clothes.
14
Football's summer window may seem increasingly incredible, an inanity of greed and skewed values.
15
There's another hour and 25 minutes' worth of logic inanity, clever expressions, and colorful retorts.
16
The sight of the ruins is as nothing in comparison with the great Parisian inanity.
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